Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum
- Publisher : British Museum
- Published In : London
Description:
Scarce. Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878) was a conchologist and entomologist. Due to ill health he spent a number of winters in Madeira and other north Atlantic Islands. Wollaston published over 40 scientific papers and is best known for his studies of Coleoptera inhabiting the Macaronesian Islands.
Derkson & Scheiding, Index Litteraturae Entomologicae II, Bd IV: 453.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth. Two leaves of index bound out of sequence. Recent owner's small ex libris label to pastedown. A well-preserved copy.
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